Kerry Eleveld is a senior fellow at EqualityMatters.org, a website devoted to the campaign for full LGBT equality. She served as the Washington Correspondent for The Advocate during the first two years of the Obama administration, regularly attending White House press briefings with press secretary Robert Gibbs. Eleveld conducted two interviews with Barack Obama during the 2008 election and is the only reporter from an LGBT outlet to get a sit-down interview with him as president. She has worked as a journalist in different media for 15 years and earned a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California-Berkeley in 2003. Since she began covering LGBT issues in 2006, Eleveld’s work has won: the “Best News Article” award in 2006 from the American Veterans for Equal Rights; second place for “Coverage of Election/Politics” in the New York Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest; first place in the 2007 “Excellence in News Writing” category as well as the 2010 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for “Excellence in LGBT Media” from the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist Association; and the 2011 “Outstanding Digital Journalism Article” for her weekly View from Washington column from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

Eleveld regularly offers insights about political developments to news outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Associated Press, and Sirius Radio.

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